Article 643W7 Bash 5.2 released

Bash 5.2 released

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Version 5.2 of the Bash shell has been released.

The most notable new feature is the rewritten command substitutionparsing code, which calls the bison parser recursively. Thisreplaces the ad-hoc parsing used in previous versions, and allowsbetter syntax checking and catches syntax errors much earlier. Theshell attempts to do a much better job of parsing and expandingarray subscripts only once; this has visible effects in the `unset'builtin, word expansions, conditional commands, and other builtinsthat can assign variable values as a side effect.

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